Device configuration and assistive technology support

Your ABC’s websites, apps and digital documents are created for flexible use on supporting devices. For example, you can enjoy ABC websites on desktop computers and portable web-enabled devices like smart phones.

You can also modify your device to suit your individual needs, such as making text larger and increasing contrast.

Read about Google’s support for devices using the Android operating system, like smart phones and tablet computers

Assistive technologies

ABC websites applications and documents are optimised for use with assistive technologies like screen readers, magnifiers, navigation switches and speech recognition software.

Watching or listening to media

Keyboard shortcuts

Control media playback with handy keyboard shortcuts.

Keyboard Shortcut

Action

Space or Enter

Pause or play video

Esc

Exit fullscreen

Up and Down arrows

Increase or decrease volume by 10%

Right and Left arrows

Seek forward or backward by 5 seconds

0-9

Fast seek to x% of the video

c

Toggle captions off, on, or cycle through the available tracks

f

Enter or exit fullscreen

m

Mute or unmute video volume

Captions

Captions are subtitles specifically designed to help people with impaired hearing. Captions show synchronised dialogue identifying speakers where needed, and describe important sounds. They are available as a screen overlay for many programs.

Captions are mostly prepared in advance for accuracy. However sometimes conveying information fast is considered more important than absolute accuracy, such as breaking news.

Limitations of this site’s accessibility

While we’ve done a lot to ensure this site is accessibility, you may find some limitations:

We always aim to communicate clearly, and as simply as possible; however some of the articles may require a reasonable level of technical understanding due to the technical nature of what they are about.

Being a media organisation, many of our stories contain multimedia components such as audio and video. We are working to add captions, text transcripts and audio description to stories.

While the site has been created to be as accessible as possible and has been reviewed by accessibility experts, some of the website has not yet been fully user-tested with people who have disabilities.

Let us know if you have difficulties using this site

If you find anything on the site difficult to use please contact us with details of your experience.

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